In the fall of 2017, Henry Hackett, Drew Kaneps, Steven Richter, Stephen Trella and Jon Yeh were five guys who happened to be in the same Professional MBA cohort. By the spring of 2019, they were a tight-knit crew presenting their final project to executives with arc...
DU Solar Decathlon team wins $25,000 award to construct a net-zero energy home CampusCraft, a DU team comprised of more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students from various academic disciplines, was awarded $25,000 to construct an energy-efficient home as part of...
Tony Adams walked into a Great Clips hair salon with two demands. He needed his previous day’s cut to be fixed, and he needed Toby to do it. OK, so the haircut wasn’t that bad. There actually wasn’t anything wrong with it. But the 21-year-old needed to see that cute...
Students enrolled in “Business 3000” hone skills valued in the workplace A few days before the start of spring break, two dozen Daniels students gathered for one of the final “Business 3000” classes of the quarter. A nervous confidence permeated through the room,...
Marriott Foundation and anonymous gift fund award-winning Fritz Knoebel program The Ready for American Hospitality program at the University of Denver’s Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management (Fritz Knoebel) now has permanent funding because of a...
For Denver MBA students Erin Justice, Sarah Sutherland and Brent Troxell, a weekend spent discussing sustainable business practices is a weekend well spent, especially when there’s prize money involved. The trio won second place and $7,500 at the 2019 Net Impact Case...
The joke always went like this: Leah Konrady was an “exploratory major.” She had no clue what she wanted to do, for college or her career. What she did know was that she wanted to go to college in Colorado. She had been telling everyone so since she was an...
When Denver’s Focus Points Family Resource Center decided to open a restaurant to help low-income women get experience working in food service, they went all in. The goal, the organization decided, wasn’t to train Latina and refugee women for jobs in the restaurant...
As the first in his family to go to college, Jeremy Martinez-Quiñones (MS 2018) didn’t have a blueprint to follow on his path to success—he had to start from the ground up. And by now, this is a process with which the graduate of Daniels’ Real Estate and the Built...
